{"id":8112,"date":"2014-02-23T05:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T05:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/23\/why-are-the-writers-at-the-nation-such-race-baiting-lunatics\/"},"modified":"2014-02-23T05:06:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T05:06:22","slug":"why-are-the-writers-at-the-nation-such-race-baiting-lunatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/23\/why-are-the-writers-at-the-nation-such-race-baiting-lunatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are the Writers at <i>The Nation<\/i> Such Race-Baiting Lunatics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/178455\/freelance-stop-and-shoot#\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is another clear example:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">George Zimmerman felt threatened by a boy almost half his age. When <span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" data-ls-seen=\"1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/section\/trayvon-martin?lc=int_mb_1001\">Trayvon Martin<\/a><\/span> couldn\u2019t produce papers proving that he wasn\u2019t a \u201cpunk,\u201d Zimmerman felt justified in killing him. The judicial system backed him up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The verdicts matter. Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal lent legal imprimatur to the understanding that it is open season on young black men; Dunn\u2019s mistrial on the key charge of murder did nothing to discredit that. But these tales go beyond the legal arena: they reflect a violent, racist culture in which the black body, particularly when it is young and male, is considered fair game.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You have to be moral scum to write crap like this.&#0160; There are certain views the holding of which morally condemns the holder.&#0160; See my articles below.<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/07\/the-zimmerman-verdict-and-the-planetary-difference-between-left-and-right.html\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/185343995_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/07\/the-zimmerman-verdict-and-the-planetary-difference-between-left-and-right.html\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">The Zimmerman Verdict and the &#39;Planetary&#39; Difference Between Left and Right<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/07\/on-the-zimmerman-acquittal.html\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/185083396_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/07\/on-the-zimmerman-acquittal.html\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">On the Zimmerman Acquittal<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another clear example: George Zimmerman felt threatened by a boy almost half his age. When Trayvon Martin couldn\u2019t produce papers proving that he wasn\u2019t a \u201cpunk,\u201d Zimmerman felt justified in killing him. The judicial system backed him up. The verdicts matter. Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal lent legal imprimatur to the understanding that it is open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/23\/why-are-the-writers-at-the-nation-such-race-baiting-lunatics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are the Writers at <i>The Nation<\/i> Such Race-Baiting Lunatics?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}